The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-09-08
GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
NEWS OF THE TWO STATES TOLD
IN PARAGRAPHS.

Passed by the Present General AS
sembly Up to Date-Two Alabama
Murders Which Cause Excitement
IL Georgia-A Federal Soldiers Skel-
eton Unearthed at Atlanta.
GEORGIA
Superior Court is in session at Sanders
vile.
At Griffin Harper g. Co. have sold their
stock of groceries to B. r. Blakely.
Atlanta's City Council has passed an ordi-
nance permitting pool selling on horse
traces.
At Princeton, Clarke county, Mr.. Hum
phries has organized an Audubon society
with 1877 members.
Griffin is to have another cotton factory.
Fifty thousand dollars has already been
promised the new enterprise, and the pros
pect is good for 100000
The Cuthbert Light Infantry was perma-
'nently reorganized Monday night with
membership of thirty-three There will be
other accessions to the membership.
j. j. Black, of Rome, is the happy posses
sor of S. Georgia bond with five coupons
of 20c each, and an old shin plaster. The
bill has been dead since Jan. /, 1885
While the school boys were engaged i'll
PLAYING base ball on the Sam Bailey Insti-
drew Blake had the misfortune to fall and
break his thigh bone.
An old sword has been dug up in the
Rome railroad yard. 1t had been in the
ground so long that rust had eaten clean
through some portions of the blade. 1t was
at one time very fine one, and was proba-
bly, buried some time during the late I'M
pieasantness
At Augusta a Mr.. Houston has employed
Messrs Twiggs & Verdery to prosecute
Berrien Rachalls, a county convict guard,
for beating numerically boy, Houston's
nephew, who is employed by the county. IL
is said the boy refused to obey Rachalls,
who made burly negro convict whip him
severely,
The County Engineer of Floyd is now
making a careful estimate of the cost of re-
pairing the Bridge street bridge, and also
an estimate of the cost of new double
track iron bridge. 1t is thought that the
board will, when the estimates are carefully
examined, find it economy to build a new
bridge.
James NJ. HUMPHREYS intends to organize
band of mercy in every grade of the pub
lie school at Athens as soon as the session
commences. He will get the teachers to be
at the head of each band, and il that way
secure their cooperation. In a few weeks
he will offer prizes for the best composition
from each band.
At Americas, Tuesday, Judge Allen Fort
rendered his decision in the Blackman muir
der case, wherein an appeal was made by
counsel for the accused for a new trial in
the case on the plea that one of the jurors
in the last trial of the case had expressed
an opinion" previous to the hearing of testi-
mony. The motion was overruled and the
case will be carried up to the Supreme
Court.
Up to date the General Assembly has
passed 154 bills which have received the APP
proval of the Governor. II is not meant
that this number has been passed at the
present sitting of the General Assembly,
but at the regular session last fall and at the
adjourned session now in progress Ii all
the bills on the desks are passed before adj
journment, there will be something like 400
or 500; but it is hardly likely that all will
get through.
Numerous robberies have been reported
In Griffin this week, all of which have
occurred in the daytime. Sunday there
were four houses robbed Tuesday after
noon, between and O'Clock, as Mrs John
1son was entering her yard, on Taylor
street. she discovered two white men and a
negro boy attempting to effect an entrance
into her house. As soon as the men saw
her they ran under the house, and from
there they made their escape.
At Macon Tuesday there was filed with
Clerk Adams, of the Superior Court, suit
for damages against the East Tennessee,
Virginia and Georgia railroad, which prom
ises to be lively matter in the courts. Mr.
Eugene B. Harris, one of the best known of
Macons army of drummers, is the plaintiff
in the action, and the suit grows out of the
fact that in the opinion of himself and his
attorneys, Ross & Blount, he was illegally
elected from train on defendants railroad
At Atlanta Tuesday morning, while a
force of dirt-throwers were excavating lot
for the East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia
railroad. near the shops of that company,
the remains of an ex-Federal soldier were
fremoved from their resting place, several
feet below the surface. The buttons found
on the clothes of the dead soldier showed
that he belonged to the Federal army. In
an old pocketbook found with the remains
was discovered $50 gold piece. The
negroes divided the money, and their work
was resumed.
Monday the Commissioners of Roads and
Revenue of Floyd county opened the bids
for the building OF the two new bridges, and
referred them to the county engineer with
instruction to report to-day. The following
are the names of the companies making
bids: Penn Bridge Company, represented
by Col Shipman; Morse Bridge Company,
Mr.. beecher; Champion Bridge Company,
Ouukc ONcn. cuiiJu treO,
b Craft; Pittsbufg Bridge Company, T. NJ.
Nelson; King Bridge Company, J. G. Ian
caster: Decatur Bridge Company, Geo. G.
Bullen.
There passed through Macon Tuesday a
queer turnout. A heavy wagon was drawn
by six powerful oxen, and the driver,
negro with long whip, controlled the
team by walking along by them, carrying
the whip at present arms and simply cali
ing out his "whoas" and gees" The oxen
were under perfect control, and were guided
in this way through the streets among many
vehicles. There was n party of negroes in
the wagon, but nothing could be learned
from them of the destination of the caravan
or from whence il came, except that they
had travelled eighty miles
The grand jury Of Dodge county in their
presentments recommend that w. s. Bryant
be discharged from the position of whipping
boss, and that the law be so changed as to
allow a committee from the grand jury of
that county to visit the convict camp, with
out notice, during the vacation of court
They find that Peter Biggers was exces.
sively and numerically whipped by Bryant,
on July 10, but do not feel justified in call
ing for his prosecution for murder. The
special committee found the camp in good
condition on July "a, except that the bed
ding was filthy, and there was terrible
stencil in the convicts' quarters all the time.
Tho citv hridoa ovar the Flint ,.ivar